“They should be thanking Hashem that their own teenage daughters aren’t giving them this type of angst”
Adina Lover, you had me chuckle last week when I read your editor’s note, Speak Up, and talked about meeting your high school teacher. The school I teach in used to have “Grandparents Day” once a year. Basically, it gives grandparents a chance to pop into their grandkids’ classes and shep nachas.
One year, in walked my high-school English teacher, as that year her granddaughter was in my class. I loved this teacher in high school and I was very excited to see her when she walked in. I said to my students, “Oh, wow, my old English teacher is here!”
She looked at me with that inimitable twinkle in her eye and a smile on her face and humorously corrected me: “Are you calling me old? I am your former teacher!”
I said, “Oh, my goodness, of course, of course! I’m so sorry! See, you’re still teaching me correct English even after all these years!”
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